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Hilary Swank leads the cast of new Netflix series Away (Picture: BACKGRID)

Netflix has announced the cast for new sci-fi series Away, and Josh Charles will be joining Hilary Swank.

Away will focus on Emma Logan – played by Hilary – an American astronaut who has to leave her family behind in order to lead an international space crew in a dangerous mission.

Josh, whose credits include The Good Wife and Dead Poets Society, will play Matt Logan, Emma’s husband who is a NASA engineer.

Matt tries to raise their teenage daughter on his own while Emma is in space, and a life-changing experience in the first episode will show the cost of them being so far away from each other.

Their daughter Alexis Logan will be played by Talitha Bateman, who has previously held roles in Love, Simon and Annabelle: Creation, and who has to cope with her father’s health challenges and coming of age while her mother is working away.

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Ato Essandoh has also been cast as British-Ghanaian botanist and rookie astronaut Kwesi, alongside veteran Russian cosmonaut and ship engineer Misha, played by Homeland’s Mark Ivanir.

Josh Charles will be playing the husband who is left behind to raise their teenage daughter (Picture: Getty Images)

Ray Panthaki will play Ram, an Indian astronaut and crew medic and co-pilot, and Vivian Wu takes on the role of Chinese taikonaut Lu, the geologist and chemist of the crew.

The series was inspired by an article in Esquire detailing real-life astronaut Scott Kelly’s mission to space in 1999.